Section: US & Canada

The thing about secret lists is that you don’t know if you’re on one — until you find out you are. Germany’s conservative lawmaker Karl-Georg Wellmann learned this lesson the hard way. Arriving in Russia for an official visit last month, Wellmann ended up spending the night in the Moscow airport transit zone. Much to his...

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Describing the situation as a “collapse of law and order” in the territories controlled by the self-proclaimed rebel Republics, and amid on- going hostilities between the Ukrainian government troops and […] The post Report details ‘dramatic’ rights abuses against Ukrainians who...

All would send ground troops to fight ISIS. As the GOP’s 2016 cast of men who would be president grows, so too do its ranks of chicken hawks—candidates who have never served in the military but are eager send American men and women into wars overseas. While it’s no surprise that these Republicans are feeding off each other in a...

This week we have images of renewed fighting in Ukraine, people trying to capture “Manhattanhenge”, a simulated bomb attack in Israel, a robotic teacher in China, attacks on gay rights activists in Moscow, Parkour among Greek ruins in Libya, the rescue of a suicidal man in China, a Red Panda in Italy, and much more.This article was...

In a closely-watched case with implications far beyond France, Europe’s top rights court has backed Friday an earlier French ruling to take a man in a vegetative state off life support, but the battle is not over. Whether to take 38-year-old Vincent Lambert off life support has bitterly divided his family and France ever since 2008. That is...

All would send ground troops to fight ISIS. As the GOP’s 2016 cast of men who would be president grows, so too do its ranks of chicken hawks—candidates who have never served in the military but are eager send American men and women into wars overseas. While it’s no surprise that these Republicans are feeding off each other in a...

The Ukrainian capital is scheduled to hold an LGBT Pride parade tomorrow—its first since the revolution–despite tensions between activists, and between activists and the authorities. …read more Source: The Daily...

MOSCOW — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Friday voiced support for LGBT rights, saying he believes an ‘Equality March’ planned for Saturday in Kiev should take place as planned. “I will not participate in it but I don’t see any reason to impede this march because it’s a constitutional right of every citizen...

Ukraine’s envoy is urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to push his fellow G7 leaders into a strong political stand against the latest Russian aggression, but says his country can make do without weapons from the West. …read more Source:...